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Stan Cohen grew up in the South Africa of apartheid, and, although he was not politically active there, it did reinforce in him an abiding scepti cism about the benevolence of the State, its ideology and its institutions.
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He had a lifelong concern with human rights violations, first growing up in South Africa, later studying imprisonment in England and finally in Palestine. He founded the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics.
May 31, 2007 · Stan always looks back to South Africa as the real source of his political ideals. But when he left South Africa for England in 1963, he fully intended to stay for only a couple of years before going off to Israel to resume his Zionist commitment.
Jan 24, 2013 · The sociologist who pioneered the hugely influential notion of “moral panics” has died. Stanley Cohen was born on 23 February 1942 and grew up in Johannesburg.
Jan 8, 2013 · Although he had left social work (he had trained in his native South Africa and then worked in London), preferring what he called ‘the safer world of sociology’, many social workers were attracted to his ideas.
He was born in South Africa and read Sociology and Social Work at the University of Witwatersrand. In 1963 he moved to the UK where he was a social worker and also a PhD student at LSE. He held jobs at the Universities of Durham, Essex, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Jan 8, 2013 · Having known Stan since we both arrived here in the UK from South Africa in the early sixties, and were active in the anti-apartheid movement, it was a special pleasure to be involved with him, Antony Giddens and others in the very first talks about the LSE’s Centre for Human Rights.
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